My first computer was given to me in 1983 when I was 16 years old.
This was the Oric-1, closely followed by an upgrade to the Oric Atmos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oric_(computer)
I still own an Oric Atmos, but have not powered it up in a few years.
#Oric #Oric1 #OricAtmos
I even have my own Oric page on Oric.org
http://thespider.oric.org/
That's where emulators come in, with a range available for various hosting platforms.
http://oric.free.fr/emulator.html
For years the main one was Euphoric, which was strictly DOS based. #Euphoric
Euphoric was succeeded by Oricutron
https://github.com/pete-gordon/oricutron
http://www.petergordon.org.uk/oricutron
This excellent emulator is available for many platforms with pre-built binaries. For Linux however, you have to build from source. #Oricutron
Since I had not ran Oricutron in quite a while, I needed to chose what host machine to run it on.
I chose my Asus EeePC 1000 Netbook, a 32 bit machine on which I have #BunsenLabs #Linux running.
I purchased this practical computer way back in March 2009.
Here's my blog post from that time:
https://solusspider.w3spaces.com/SolusSpider_002_2009-03-27_Small-Computer_Big-Excitement.html
Ran into compiling issues, mostly with the SDL library.
Spent a few days of spare time battling with multiple compile error codes and lots of Google-foo searches.
Basically gave up last evening, and decided to try the win32 pre-built binary via Wine.
It worked great!!!
Would I prefer Oricutron running as a Linux program? Yes, but sometimes you have to go with what works.
Now I can play game classics such as Centi and Hopper, as well as maybe get back into BASIC programming.
Any other Oric users out there in the #Fediverse?
